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name: Kay Kurokawa
role: Protocol Developer
email: kay@lbry.io
twitter: kaykurokawa
github: kaykurokawa
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Kay Kurokawa is the primary developer for the LBRY blockchain, the foundation of the LBRY protocol. Kay first discovered Bitcoin in 2013 and immediately saw its potential. Before LBRY, he provided consultation services to blockchain startups and contributed to various open source projects such as Electrum, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Blocknet.

Before his work on blockchain technology, Kay worked at a high frequency trading firm as a software engineer. He also spent time developing algorithms for spectrometry devices, and has several published papers on the topic. He earned a B.S. and an M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University in electrical and computer engineering.